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Pinochet’s updated victim figures, a staggering 40,018
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Pinochet’s updated victim figures, a staggering 40,018
Fri, 2011-08-26 00:35 — editor

S.H.Moulana -Riyadh
The Chilean commission inquiring into people who suffered human rights violations under Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s 17-year evil rule between 1973 and 1990 has added another additional 9800 more victims to the list and thus the new total number of victims stands at a staggering 40,018.

He detained and tortured Chileans for political reasons by agents of the state or people at its service. Pinochet was installed to rule Chile by the champion of human rights and the promoter of democracy, the United States, displacing democratically elected Allende, whose economic reforms did not go well with the then US president Richard Nixon.

Allende decided to nationalize the copper industry and the banks to cure Chile’s economic ills the country was suffering then. He also restored diplomatic relations with Cuba and East Germany which really infuriated US president Richard Nixon. The CIA arranged for Michael V. Townley to be sent to Chile under the alias of Kenneth W. Enyart.

He was accompanied by Aldo Vera Serafin of the Secret Army Organization (SAO). The task force was assigned to remove Allende, who was elected by the Chilean people. Henry Kissinger, later admitted that Richard Nixon ordered him to organize a coup against Allende’s government. It was reported that Nixon spent 8 million dollars to destabilize Allende’s government prior to the coup to topple him and install General Augusto Pinochet. There were several other US sponsored military coups in Latin America in the 60s and 70s.

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